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The Bacon Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$604k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$791kEducation$591kHuman Services$326kPhilanthropy$223kHealth$106kInternational$29kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $529k
$13,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURPOSITY FOUNDATION INC$150,725
RAINIER ATHLETES$80,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$75,050
BELLEVUE LIFESPRING$66,749
JUBILEE REACH$56,746
EASTSIDE ACADEMY$50,000
BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER$50,000
NO MORE UNDER$25,000
BELLEVUE SCHOOLS DISTRICT FAMILIES$14,366
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES$13,600
SACRED HEART SCHOOL$5,325
BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL - SOUP4SIMPSON$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$5,000
BELLEVUE BOYS LACROSSE CLUB$2,500
SOLID GROUND$1,162
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFEWIRE: $346 → 9%THE RUBY ROOM: $6k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $4k → 9%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $3k → 9%THE RUBY ROOM: $2k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $9k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $250 → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $24k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $15k → 9%NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE: $10k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $70k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $50k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $50k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $50k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
PA
CA
NM
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 25 repeat orgs$991k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
39

Total granted

$3.1M
$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RA
    RAINIER ATHLETES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue +393%
  • EA
    EASTSIDE ACADEMY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +8%
  • JR
    Jubilee REACH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • BF
    BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $680k · revenue 0% · 74% of their budget
  • HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TD
    THE DETLEF SCHREMPF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -98%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
2
Belong Partners

BELONG Partners is an education equity nonprofit that believes in a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive because they know they matter and belong. We partner with schools and organizations to build equitable communities…

Youth Development
3
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
4
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.

Human Services
5
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
6
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
7
Financial Empowerment Network

Vision we envision communities where low- and moderate-income individuals and families are able to achieve financial well-being.mission we advance financial empowerment through partnerships that support access to affordable, effective, and…

Public Benefit
8
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
9
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…

Health
11
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
12
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound; the most unlike its peers is Cure Als. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $879,676 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $96,054 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON+47 more: $310,877 · Other+47 moreBELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION: $679,700 · Public Safety & DisasterBELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATI…NO MORE UNDER: $136,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNO MORE UNDEREASTSIDE ACADEMY: $294,750 · EducationEASTSIDE ACADEMYJubilee REACH: $284,950 · EducationJubilee REACHBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $170,856 · EducationBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUN…+1 more: $14,215 · EducationBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $283,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGE RECEI…OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $114,547 · Human ServicesOVERLAKE SER…HOPELINK: $23,881 · Human Services+6 more: $31,767 · Human Services+6 moreRAINIER ATHLETES: $393,329 · Youth DevelopmentRAINIER AT…Purposity Foundation Inc: $150,725 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $8,117 · PhilanthropySEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $104,750 · Health+3 more: $1,176 · Health
Other$1,286,607Public Safety & Disaster$815,700Education$764,771Human Services$453,695Youth Development$393,329Philanthropy$258,842Health$105,926

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION: $679,700 over 1y, 74% of budgetRAINIER ATHLETES: $393,329 over 9y, 11% of budgetEASTSIDE ACADEMY: $294,750 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetJubilee REACH: $284,950 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $283,500 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $170,856 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetNO MORE UNDER: $136,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $114,547 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $104,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $25,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETLEF SCHREMPF FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHOPELINK: $23,881 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE BOYS LACROSSE CLUB: $16,250 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMEDINA PTSA: $14,215 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNorthwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBirthday Dreams: $9,315 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BFF FOUNDATION INC: $8,117 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUBY ROOM: $7,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $4,621 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $4,006 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $2,006 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURE ALS: $500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $476 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire: $346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAY BACK INN FOUNDATION: $118 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Purposity Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NO MORE UNDER ↗
  • Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE DETLEF SCHREMPF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗
  • Who funds BELLEVUE BOYS LACROSSE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MEDINA PTSA ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center ↗
  • Who funds Birthday Dreams ↗
  • Who funds THE BFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RUBY ROOM ↗
  • Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
  • Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationAven FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Bellevue Rotary Found…Medina FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…United Way of King Co…Byron & Alice Lockwoo…47th Avenue FoundationEllison FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Aven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Bellevue Rotary Foundation · Medina Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · United Way of King County · Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation · 47th Avenue Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bacon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bacon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Bacon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bacon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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